Around the Farm: June 11

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Around the Farm takes a quick look at some of yesterday's performances by Indians prospects throughout the system. The positions listed below are where the player was playing in yesterday's game.

Jason Kipnis - 2B, Columbus: 3-for-4, R, HR, 3 RBI, BB.Kipnis is really having a good season in Triple-A Columbus. He got off to a slow start this year as he only hit .253 in 21 April games, but he still managed an .820 OPS. His batting average shot up in May to .312 and he had an .858 OPS, and so far in June he has an excellent slash line of .314/.405/.543 in 10 games so far in June. One key to his success this year is he is limiting strikeouts as he has 36 in 219 at bats (6.0 AB/K), compared to the 107 he had in 518 at bats last year (4.8 AB/K). Overall in Columbus he is hitting .292/.369/.489 with 7 HR and 37 RBI and is ready offensively to come to Cleveland at any time. It still comes down to when the Indians are comfortable with his defense.

Adam Miller - RP, Akron: 2.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 1 K.A very good outing for Miller in his fifth time out for Akron. Still no setbacks and he is still working his way through his slider issues. His ERA is a little deceiving as he's been great in 10 of his 13 combined appearances at Kinston and Akron. He has had things blow up on him in three other games which has inflated the ERA, but his other numbers are good: .242 BAA, 9.0 K/9 and 4.5 BB/9, though the walk rate needs to come down some.

Ezequiel Carrera - CF, Columbus: 1-for-4, R, BB, K, 2 SB. The biggest improvement in his game this year is his base-stealing ability. Career high is 28 and already has 21 this season.

Lonnie Chisenhall - 3B, Columbus: 0-for-5. Now 0-for-13 in last 3 games and 2-for-27 in last 7 games, he looks like he is nowhere close to going to Cleveland.

Luis Valbuena - SS, Columbus: 0-for-3, R. His 19-game hitting streak comes to an end. Having a nice season in Columbus hitting .314/.370/.474 in 53 games.

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